Objectives

The main objective of Action 298 is to create new knowledge about users’ creativity and to facilitate their empowerment in a broadband information society. This knowledge is crucial in order to strengthen the European Research Area. Moreover, this requires an examination of the factors that can both constrain and enhance users abilities to shape and use ICTs, nowadays also referred to as information society technologies and services (ISTs).

 The Action’s specific objectives are as follows:

 1) To examine the modalities in which users actually use ICTs and to discover their current forms of creativity. This involves assessing existing studies and, on the basis of this, informing industries and developing recommendations about ways to integrate these insights into future products and services.

2) To look ahead to technology related-developments in the more medium term (e.g. the planned implementation of certain national and EU regulations) in order to apply the insights gained from existing research and indicate the implications.

3) To suggest new approaches and methodologies for constructing a more user- driven model of innovation in order to overcome the limitations of current models of ‘user-centred’ development. This entails providing an analysis of the various conceptualisations of the role of users held by those developing new applications within different parts of the ICT industry.

4) To produce a new phase in interdisciplinary cooperation. This would provide the basis for conceptually integrating the various methods for assessing the experience of broadband technologies from the perspective of different disciplines (e.g. through workshops that invite people from various disciplines to attend in order to stimulate dialogue).

For a more detailed description see MoU (Memorandum of Understanding).

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